The greater stick-nest rat is munching through African boxthorns and nesting in the plant’s thickets. Studying the threatened rodent’s droppings revealed African boxthorn represented half of its diet, ...

A new rust fungus biocontrol agent for African Boxthorn weed is out of the lab and into the field. The program includes a targeted release, monitoring and evaluation program in New South Wales. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Annie Kraehe (pictured) collected and analysed the poo pellets of greater stick-nest rats on a remote island to see what they ate.

THE aggressively invasive weed African boxthorn is rendering some pastures, waterways and bushland in the Bell and Mt Tyson areas unusable. So Condamine Alliance has joined forces with landholders and ...

African Boxthorn is a spiny shrub originally from South Africa which was introduced to Australia as a hedge. "Since its introduction, it has since spread to pastures, neglected areas, roadsides, ...

Jon Falkenmire spent his final years trying to clear African boxthorn from his Manilla property near Tamworth in NSW. The 77-year-old would spend a day or more a month cutting the dense thorny weed ...